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Non-digital vs. digital narrative

Giorgio Buccellati – April 2008

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A comparison of narratives

A first look at an example of digital narrative, as I understand it and as it is found especially in the Urkesh Global Record, may suggest that the shape of the proposed digital narrative is in fact not substantially different from a set of records in a data base. My claim for a proper narrative status rests on the nature of the concatenation of the “records,” in such a way as to create a proper logical flow as in any argument presented in a non-digital narrative style.
     The best way to show how this obtains is to compare two segments representative of either type of narrative, and to “translate” them into their converse mode.

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Translating digital into non-digital

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